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CiteScore:
4.15ℹCiteScore:2017: 4.150CiteScore measures the average citations received per document published in this title. CiteScore values are based on citation counts in a given year (e.g. 2015) to documents published in three previous calendar years (e.g. 2012 – 14), divided by the number of documents in these three previous years (e.g. 2012 – 14).

Impact Factor:
3.647ℹImpact Factor:2017: 3.647The Impact Factor measures the average number of citations received in a particular year by papers published in the journal during the two preceding years.
2017 Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate Analytics, 2018)

5-Year Impact Factor:
3.817ℹFive-Year Impact Factor:2017: 3.817To calculate the five year Impact Factor, citations are counted in 2017 to the previous five years and divided by the source items published in the previous five years.
2017 Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate Analytics, 2018)

Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP):
2.678ℹSource Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP):2017: 2.678SNIP measures contextual citation impact by weighting citations based on the total number of citations in a subject field.

SCImago Journal Rank (SJR):
1.695ℹSCImago Journal Rank (SJR):2017: 1.695SJR is a prestige metric based on the idea that not all citations are the same. SJR uses a similar algorithm as the Google page rank; it provides a quantitative and a qualitative measure of the journal’s impact.

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